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Add new MLX distributed backend with support for both TCP and RDMA for model sharding.

This implementation ties in the discovery implementation already in place, and re-uses the same P2P mechanism for the TCP MLX-distributed inferencing.

The Auto-parallel implementation is inspired by Exo's ones (who have been added to acknowledgement for the great work!)

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Add new MLX distributed backend with support for both TCP and RDMA for
model sharding.

This implementation ties in the discovery implementation already in
place, and re-uses the same P2P mechanism for the TCP MLX-distributed
inferencing.

The Auto-parallel implementation is inspired by Exo's
ones (who have been added to acknowledgement for the great work!)

Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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@mudler mudler marked this pull request as draft March 5, 2026 22:21
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Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
Signed-off-by: Ettore Di Giacinto <mudler@localai.io>
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Integrate RDMA support with MLX backend using mlx-jaccl-cluster

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